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where I most closely studied this department of Australian 
vegetation, I mean in Napoleon’s Valley and on Mount 
William the Fourth, I every where found the formation to be 
of coarse-grained granite, upon which rests a stratum of 
vegetable mould, covered with Sphagnum. A characteristic 
feature in these localities consists in the tracts, which for 
miles, are covered with dead timber (the small Eucalyptus), 
killed during severe winters by the vast accumulation of 
Snow; a fact, however, upon which, inasmuch as it rather 
belongs to Physical Geography than Botany, I shall not here 
dilate. The characteristic plants of this Class are two species 
of Gentian, a Mniarum and Sphagnum, a new Dracophyllum, 
Pentachondra, Aseroe, Galium, Veronica (n. sp.), Leptorhyn- 
_ Chus, Callitriche (2), Eurybia (several species), Acrostichum 
australe, Coprosma, Podolepis (some of them three feet high), 
and several Umbellifere of very extraordinary aspect. 
_ All the most remarkable plants that I collected during my 
. €xpedition are deposited in the British Museum. It is only 
by the aid ofthe second volume of the Prodromus Flore Nove 
Hollandie, that their earlier elucidation could be accom- 
_ plished, —a book, than which none would ever afford more 
effectual assistance to the explorer of New Holland. 
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SE Brief descriptions, with figures, of JUNIPERUS BERMUDIANA, 
de the Pencil-Cedar Tree ; and of the DACRYDIUM ELATUM, . 
Wal., —by W. J. H. (Tans. I, I). eee 
JUNIPERUS BERMUDIANA. 
DES I had long been anxious to procure authentic specimens 
Of Juniperus Bermudiana, which is considered to yield the 
... Wood of which cedar pencils are made; but notwithstanding 
T that the Bermudas are a colony of Great Britain, and that, 
.. 2esides the interesting use of the wood just mentioned, ships 
sa actually built with it, yet it was only very lately, and = 
then through the kindness of the Rev. C. E. Johns, that I 
